3/06/2010 11:27:19
Filed Under: Poker News by: sxnetworks

Sammy Farha wins his third World Series of Poker bracelet

Sammy Farha, one of the poker players responsible for the 2003 poker boom, has won another World Series of Poker bracelet after a marathon heads up battle with James Dempsey. Farha played in the $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split/8 or better event and he took home a large prize of $488,237. He is considered one of the best Omaha poker players in the world.

This is the first World Series of Poker bracelet Farha wins since 2006 and he has won his three bracelets in Omaha tournaments. Up to this day and after this event, Farha has won more than $2.8 million in career tournament winnings, also building a solid career and reputation in the poker world.

The heads-up match with Dempsey lasted almost four hours and was pretty exhausting for both poker players. “I didn’t get frustrated,” Farha commented. “That’s not normally me. I didn’t get a good night’s sleep so I was surprised that I won’t getting frustrated, which is good.”

James Dempsey is now the leader in the WSOP Player of the Year Race and he has already won a World Series of Poker bracelet this year. Dempsey is a British poker player who so far has won $694,878 in poker tournaments. He started playing professional poker in 2003 and he finished first in the 41st World Series of Poker 2010.

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Filed Under: Poker News by: sxnetworks

Vegas 2010 in Everest Poker

Everest Poker, the most popular online poker site in the market, invites poker players to the biggest poker tournament in the world. Qualify for the tournament to have a chance to share in the cashes of all the qualifiers in Everest Poker. Last year, more than 50 poker players won almost $20,000 each.

If you qualify for the Main Event or the $1,000 Side Event #54 playing poker in Everest Poker you could win a share of the fabulous $1,000,000 jackpot. You can qualify online or through a live poker promotion. Everest Poker has decided to expand the $1 Million Match to give players more chances to win.

The $1 Million Match works in a very simple way because Everest Poker matches the total amount casino players win in the Main Event and in Side Event #54, up to $1,000,000. The money will be divided among all the poker players who qualified for the tournament through Everest Poker and deposited in their poker accounts.

Prizes will be divided proportionally, according to the event each player qualified for. The higher the buy-in you paid, the bigger the prize will be. Poker players who qualified for the Main Event will win ten shares of the $1,000,000 prize and poker players who qualified for the Side Event #54 will take home 11 shares of the prize. Join Everest Poker today and be a poker winner.

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Filed Under: Tournaments by: abel

WSOP 2010 - $50k Players Championship Final Table

The Player’s Championship Final table have two poker players with the surname Mizrachi, they are Brothers; Robert and Michael, the first one being the eldest and having the poker tournament chip lead and Michael with 500.000 chips less, still in the battle.

Can you imagine that, going with your brother to a millionare poker tournament!! Would you share your earnins with your BRO if you came out heads-up against him? Who will get the bracelet?

It must be so goooood to be there, don’t you wanna become a professional poker player?

Anyway…Here’s some info about the Players championship Final Tables

The following poker players finished in the money bubble but came up too short for the final table:

9th: Nick Schulman ($152,739)
10th: Alexander Kostritsyn ($152,739)
11th: Abe Mosseri ($129,957)
12th: Lyle Berman ($129,957)
13th: Brett Richey ($113,030)
14th: Allen Bari ($113,030)
15th: Ilya Bulychev ($98,330)
16th: Andy Bloch ($98,330)

Seating and counts of chips for the final table are:

Seat 1: David Baker - 3,095,000
Seat 2: Mikael Thuritz - 2,300,000
Seat 3: Vladimir Schmelev - 1,925,000
Seat 4: John Juanda - 2,620,000
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei - 1,705,000
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi - 2,620,000
Seat 7: David Oppenheim - 460,000
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi - 3,125,000

QUALIFY TO THE WSOP ME

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Filed Under: Poker Players, Tournaments by: abel

Party Poker Big Game have a winner!

VIFFER an US Professional was undoubtedly the major winner at the Big Game IV organized by Partypoker dot com. The dude’s full name is David ‘Viffer’ Peat which finished nearly £150,000 in profit, a record for the Big Game

Viffer said at the end of the 48 hour marathon, “I am still ready to play, can’t we go on for longer?”. It made me laugh.

Another new innovation was the player walk-ons (when the dudes comes into the play scene..) with Tony G’s ‘Bicycle Race’ entrance and Roland De Wolfe’s howling ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’ curtain raiser particularly memorable. The rest weren’t as funny as this two.

The Big Game gets bigger and even more huge every year. As you know the Mysterious online high stakes legend Isildur1 pulled out of the Party Poker Big Game, Tony G said he was a pussy, basically.

Name Profit/Loss

Paul Marrow -15,000
Jennifer Tilly 32,975
Laurence Grondin 20,725
Dusty Schmidt -11,925
David Viffer Peat 146,225
Isaac Haxton -6,775
Neil Channing -24,725
Andreas Ruiz -5,000
Oscar Pardo -750
Dixie Dean -10,000
Roberto Romanello -20,000
Guy Steele 1,050
Paul Zimbler 12,650
Barny Boatman 3,825
Andrew Feldman -8,900
Phil Laak 21,925
Luke Schwartz -55,000
Ellis Reuben 25,225
Simon Munz -24,900
MB Mahmoud -27,200
Robert Williamson III 10,450
Bodo Sbrzesny 17,450
Sam Trickett 24,825
Tony G 11,500
Dan Fleyshman -2,675
Roland De Wolfe -60,000
James Mitchell -2,175
Justin Bonomo -43,025

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Filed Under: Play Poker by: abel

Support your squad at South Africa 2010 WC

Participate in a poker tournament called “Support Your Squad” and Raffle to win your favorite team’s official football shirt!!

May 12 – June 11, we will be counting the days down to the Soccer World Cup to be player at South Africa (2010) and we are giving away the big ammount of 180 authentic football jerseys.

If you are good with math you already noticed that we’re giving away six official football shirts every day.

You can choose a shirt from any team, even those that don’t participate of the World Cup and also Club’s shirts (Bercelona, Inter, Real Madrid, Boca Juniors, etc). Show your support for the squad at the poker tables!

There are Two ways to win

1. Play the Support Your Squad Tournaments from May 12 – June 11 every day at 20:00 GMT.

The Top 5 players of each tournament will be awarded a coupon code that can be redeemed for one official football shirt of their choice from the Summit Point Store.

Note:The Support Squad Tournament has a buy-in of ($2 + .20) or (500 + 50 SP) and may be found under the Special tab in the Scheduled Tournaments section of the Everest Poker lobby. VERY CHEAP.

2. Join the Support Your Squad Raffle for another shot, maybe u got lucky.

everest poker support your squad

Enter bonus code FOOTBALL into your Everest Poker account and start playing raked hands, if you happend to earn 25 summit points in one day you have qualified. On the following day a random player will be choosed as the winner of the soccer shirt.

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Filed Under: Poker Players by: abel

Poker Players: Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey and more

Tom “Durrrr” Dwan is one of the best poker players around, actually he might be the best online poker player, no doubt.

    This guy is really sharp and always follow the plan a very good pro.

Anyway, let’s stop hailing Durrrr and start telling u the story, he lost $2.500.000 in one week, yeah, we’ll explain how. Anyway this is just variance for him, he is still in the green numbers with like $3.6 millons this year, so yeah cool.

The battle was against jungleman12 and Phil Ivey. Durrr played near to 8000 hands against jungleman12 in a six table heads-up $200/$400 no-limit hold’em session. At one point Dwan was like half a million up but jungleman12 turned it around and ended the game (quited) with $584,000 as a winner.

Then Tom Dwan aka Durrrr decided to go battleground against Mister Phil Ivey, playing $500/$1000 pot-limit Omaha match. only in 462 Durrr lost $423.000 against ivey, ROFLMAO. I hate this guys.

The rest was eaten by Antonius and URnotINdanger2 among the whole week.

This week…Pro Players earnings/loses

This week’s biggest winners (4/26-5/3): Luukie21(+$666,000), Patrik Antonius (+$639,000), Observer84 ($523,000)

In the red: Tom “durrrr” Dwan (-$2.51 million), URnotINdanger2 (-$908,000), MicahJ (-$659,000)

Top earners
, April 2010: Patrik Antonius (+$2.56 million), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (+$1.37 million), Phil Ivey (+$908,000)

Wanna be like this PRO poker players? Why not start playing on the best place,
partypoker.com ?

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Filed Under: Tournaments by: abel

WSOP-C Las Vegas: Casetta on the lead

The WSOP-C (world series of poker Circuit) is currently running on Las Vegas, Nevada. Already the first day of the tourney passed by and the chip leader is Dan Casetta with 160k chips.

Just 67 poker players will return to play the WSOP-C Las Vegas on Wednesday at noon local time (to play the seven levels remaining). By the time the chip bags are brought out a second time, the tournament should be at or very close to the money bubble.

Qualify to the WSOP playing at Party Poker

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Filed Under: Poker News, Tournaments by: abel

Qualify to WSOP 2010 - Party Poker Satellites

Now you can qualify for free to the most famous poker event on the entire world, the WSOP 2010 Main Event, the package itself is worth $14.000 and you won’t believe it but YEAH, you can qualify for free to the Main Event! All thanks to the boys @ party poker.

You can qualify from now on until 13rd June and remember that the WSOP 2010 ME to be played in las vegas will begin on 5th until 17th july, 2010.

Each package includes:

    $10.000 for the Buy-In
    $2.500 for expenses
    Acomodations and services.

All the winners of the package will be invited to parcipate on an intensive poker lounge where u will be teached the most professional and impressive strategies and pro moves. So that’s also important!

What are you waiting for? Register and qualify to the WSOP @ Party Poker

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Filed Under: Play Poker, Poker Bonus by: abel

Everest Poker Elevator Promotion

The Elevator promotion from Everest Poker consists of three separated promos:

  1. Step Token Freerolls
  2. Jump to Step 3 Guarantees
  3. Elevator Sit & Go Races

Together this promos guarantee more than $65.000 in Steps Tokens (use the tokens to buyin on the popular tourneys like the $150.000 GP or as direct entries to the awesome live events organized by Everest Poker)
Beginning April 1, we’ll host seven Step Token Freerolls a night for a total monthly prize pool of $30,000 in Step 1 and Step 2 Tokens. The nightly lineup for April looks like this:

Time Type of Freeroll
16:00 GMT $100 Step 1 Freeroll
17:00 GMT $250 Step 2 Freeroll
18:00 GMT $100 Step 1 Freeroll
19:00 GMT $100 Step 1 Freeroll
20:00 GMT $100 Step 1 Freeroll
21:00 GMT $250 Step 2 Freeroll
22:00 GMT $100 Step 1 Freeroll
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Filed Under: Play Poker, Tournaments by: abel

Party Poker BigGame IV

Party Poker organiza este torneo de poker en vivo de dimensiones gigantes, el mismo se jugara el dia domingo y es muy interesante ver quienes son los que se han alineado decididos a jugar este gran evento de poker.Party Poker hosts poker tournament live on gigantic dimensions, the same day will be played on Sunday and it is very interesting to see who are those who have aligned determined to play this great event of poker.

Among the players look forward with more desire to see Tony G are (owner of the famous poker cadenda news in English) and Isildur1 poker player they burst and Durrrr but nobody knows his identity, she is capable of playing with a mask prevervar for anonymity intact.

Participants FOR the Party Poker Biggame IV are:

  • Tony G
  • Isildur1
  • Luke “Full Flush” Schwartz
  • Phil Laak
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • Neil Channing
  • Dusty “Leatherass Schmidt
  • David “VIFF” Peat
  • Issac Haxton
  • Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo
  • Roland de Wolfe
  • Bodo Sbrzesny
  • James Mitchell
  • Robert Williamson III
  • Andrew Feldman
  • Simon “Schnibl0r” Münz
  • Roberto Romanello
  • Andy Greekfish
  • Barny Boatman
  • Laurence Grondi
  • Jake Cody
  • Sam Trickett
  • Josh Gould
  • Richard Wheatley
  • Paul Zimbler


REGISTER AND EARN YOUR SEAT

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